Adobe InDesign CS5 software provides precise control over typography and built-in creative tools for designing, preflighting, and publishing documents for print, online, or to mobile devices. Include interactivity, animation, video, and sound in page layouts to fully engage readers.
Adobe InDesign CS5 software introduces breakthrough productivity and collaboration features such as simplified object editing and selection, integration with Adobe CS Live online services and the ability to create rich interactive documents that attract and engage readers. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.
Main Features
Interactive documents and presentations. Add interactivity, motion, sound, and video to documents and presentations, exporting directly to SWF for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime.
Simplified object selection and editing. Perform repetitive layout tasks efficiently using new and enhanced tools and on-object controls.
Integration with Adobe CS Review. Create and share reviews online while working in InDesign with Adobe CS Review, part of CS Live online services. See feedback in the context of your page layout.
Track Text Changes. Mark up text directly in InDesign, easily tracking copy revisions.
Multiple page sizes. Create pages with different sizes in a single document.
Redesigned Layers panel. Easily manage page items with a redesigned Layers panel that is more like the one in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software.
Paragraphs that span or split columns. Quickly create text that spans or splits into multiple columns in just a few steps.
Redesigned Layers panel. Easily manage page items with a redesigned Layers panel that is more like the one in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software.
Production enhancements. Find and drag images into page layouts from AdobeMiniBridge without leaving InDesign. Document-installed fonts can help eliminate missing font issues.
Export to Flash Professional. Export InDesign documents to Flash Professional to add sophisticated interactivity, animation, and navigation to complex layouts.
Live Captions. Generate static or live captions automatically from image metadata.
eBook creation. Create compelling eBooks in the EPUB format for the Apple iPad, Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble nook, mobile phones, and other devices.
System Requirements
Hard Disk 2.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices)
Memory 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
Processor Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
Platform Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
Other 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
DVD-ROM drive
Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to export SWF files
Broadband Internet connection required for online services
